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#MadonnaDontPlay

In response to the growing #MadonnaDontGo outcry, former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has penned an op-ed piece for The Guardian asking Madonna not to play the 2019 Eurovision Contest held this year in Tel Aviv.

Titled If you believe in human rights, Madonna, don’t play Tel Aviv, Waters writes that “some of my fellow musicians who have recently performed in Israel say they are doing it to build bridges and further the cause of peace. Bullshit. To perform in Israel is a lucrative gig but to do so serves to normalise the occupation, the apartheid, the ethnic cleansing, the incarceration of children, the slaughter of unarmed protesters … all that bad stuff..”